Jeopardy! Hires Mike Richards And Mayim Bialik!

Mayim Bialik will be hosting Jeopardy! with Mike Richards.

 

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Game show producer Mike Richards and actress Mayim Bialik will be the new hosts of the longtime quiz show. Bialik, a certified neuroscientist and actress best known for her roles on Blossom, The Big Bang Theory and Call Me Kat announced her role on social media,

IT’S TRUE!!! Been waiting a long time to tell you all. Really really honored and astounded and excited for this - it’s beyond anything I ever imagined could happen. https://t.co/MZpXV7a9xf @Jeopardy

— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) August 11, 2021

YAY!!! 🥳🥳 @Jeopardy #MayimOnJeopardy pic.twitter.com/dO6T7IIpgT

— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) August 11, 2021

Thanks @nytimes for my neuroscientist call out! I think my neuro training prepared me best for this job! https://t.co/BDwL1bfbxH

— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) August 11, 2021

I’m hosting @Jeopardy!

And #1 trending on Twitter!? What!?!?! pic.twitter.com/Pncg8cVkUd

— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) August 11, 2021

Richards will be the syndicated host and Bialik will host the ABC primetime specials and be fill-in during the times Richards is on vacation. 

While some were hoping that LeVar Burton, Ken Jennings, James Holzhauer, Aaron Rodgers, Anderson Cooper and Savannah Guthrie would nab the role, the show played safe by hiring Richards. It was somewhat controversial because of his past duties as executive producer on The Price is Right and Let's Make A Deal. The claims of him being a monster towards workers didn't deter the promotion to become a permanent host.

Mike Richards was the leading candidate for the hosting gig.

Brian Stelter from CNN, a prominent media commentator wrote that the choices were made by Sony Entertainment.

Given the popularity of the daily syndicated show that was helmed by Alex Trebek for decades, it’s only logical that Sony wants to keep trying to expand in new directions.

Announcing Mayim Bialik and Mike Richards as our new hosts of Jeopardy! Richards will host the daily syndicated show, while Bialik will host primetime and spinoff series.https://t.co/MVQAqnKgjU pic.twitter.com/itY6fIe5Uv

— Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) August 11, 2021

At the same time, it may represent a risk for the TV studio, since the “Jeopardy!” brand may become diluted with two hosts.

Richards will continue as executive producer of “Jeopardy” when he becomes the show’s host. He filled in as a guest host for two weeks last winter, when the show introduced a series of rotating hosts that seemed to be try-outs for the permanent job.

Sony indicated on Wednesday that, contrary to social media chatter and speculation, Richards did not pick himself for the job.

Ravi Ahuja, Sony Pictures’ chair of global TV studios and corporate development, said “a senior group of Sony Pictures Television executives pored over footage from every episode, reviewed research from multiple panels and focus groups, and got valuable input from our key partners and Jeopardy! viewers. We knew early on that we wanted to divide the hosting responsibilities and it became very clear that Mike and Mayim were the undeniable choices. They were both at the top of our research and analysis.”

Richards paid tribute to Trebek, who died last November at the age of 80, in his statement on Wednesday.

Fans were calling for LeVar Burton to host the show. Burton is best known for his role in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Reading Rainbow.

“Alex believed the game itself and the contestants are the most important aspects of the show,” he said. “I was fortunate to witness his professionalism, intensity and kindness up close and that will serve as the ultimate blueprint as we continue to produce the show we love.”

Bialik called the new job hosting prime time editions of the show “one of the most exciting and surreal opportunities of my life.”

“I’m so grateful and excited to continue to work with Mike Richards, and I’m just over the moon to join forces with him and Sony,” she said.

One of the other contenders for the host job, “Jeopardy” genius Ken Jennings, will continue to serve as a consulting producer on the show.